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SIOE 2016

Paris, France — Full Programme

  • Designing an Inventive Contribution System

    Michael Abramowicz (George Washington University)

  • The Patent Troll: Benign Middleman or Stick-Up Artist?

    David S. Abrams (University of Pennsylvania); Ufuk Akcigit (University of Chicago); Gokhan Oz (University of Pennsylvania)

  • To Plea or Not to Plea: Evidence from North Carolina

    David S. Abrams (University of Pennsylvania); Ryan Fackler (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Violence and the Geographic Concentration of Political Power

    Jordan Adamson (Clemson University)

  • Elections, Exchange Rates, and Foreign Currency Debt: Swiss francs and the 2015 Polish elections

    John Ahlquist (UC San Diego); Mark Copelovitch (University of Wisconsin); Stefanie Walter (University of Zurich)

  • Private and Public Firms in the Shadow of Coercive Power

    Gani Aldashev (ECARES, ULB); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

  • 'The Lesser of Two Weevils': British Victual Organization During the Long Eighteenth Century

    Douglas Allen (Simon Fraser University)

  • Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications

    Eric Alston (Comparative Constitutions Project); Lee J. Alston (Indiana University); Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia); Tomas Nonnenmacher (Allegheny College)

  • The Long-Run Influence of Institutions Governing Trade: The Case of Colonial and Pirates' Ports in Mexico

    Daphne Alvarez Villa (University of Oxford); Jenny Guardado (Georgetown University)

  • Justice Delayed is Growth Denied: The Effect of Slow Courts on Relationship-Specific Industries in India

    Amrit Amirapu (University of Kent)

  • Does Biological Endowment Matter for Demand for Financial Services? Evidence from Russia

    Irina Andrievskaya (None); Maria Semenova (CInSt, HSE, Moscow)

  • The Role of Relational Contracts in Interfirm Relationships: Theory and Evidence on Multiunit Franchising

    Nicholas Argyres (University of Washington in St. Louis); Janet Bercovitz (University of Illinois); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

  • Corporate Governance Regulation Through Non-Prosecution

    Jennifer Arlen (New York University School of Law); Marcel Kahan (New York University School of Law)

  • Private and Public Ordering in Property

    Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)

  • The Economics of Sequential Exchange

    Benito Arruñada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF); Nuno Garoupa (Texas A&M University)

  • Frictions and Competitive Positioning: How Transaction Costs Influence Bargaining and Market Power

    Christian Geisler Asmussen (Copenhagen Business School); Kirsten Foss (Norwegian School of Economics); Nicolai J. Foss (Copenhagen Business School); Peter G. Klein (Baylor University)

  • Difference of Civicness and Relative Efficiency of the Public and Private Sectors for Public Service Delivery: Self-selection and Sorting

    Laure Athias (University of Lausanne); Pascal Wicht (University of Lausanne)

  • Do More Accountable Governments Resort More to Public Private Partnerships?

    Laure Athias (University of Lausanne); Julie Le Gallo (Agrosup Dijon); Thierry Madiès (University of Fribourg)

  • Should Failure to Defend Imply Forfeiture of Coverage Defenses?

    Tom Baker (University of Pennsylvania); Ezra Friedman (Northwestern University); Kyle Logue (University of Michigan)

  • Democracy, Income and Health: Evidence from Sub-National Comparative Method

    Dina Balalaeva (NRU Higher School of Economics); Vladimir Kozlov (NRU Higher School of Economics); Alexander Libman (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

  • The Family Business and the Law : How does the family law affect family business ?

    Céline BARREDY (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense); Massimiliano VATIERO (Université de Lugano); Gianluca COLOMBO (Université de Lugano)

  • Financial Constraints, Investment, and Relational Contracts

    Daniel Barron (Northwestern); Jin Li (Northwestern)

  • A rationale for marriage and its infidelity implications

    Yoram Barzel (University of washington); Aurora Stephany (University of Washington)

  • The Impact of e-Visits in Primary Care: Evidence on Visit Frequencies and Patient Health

    Hessam Bavafa (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Lorin Hitt (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania); Christian Terwiesch (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

  • Foreign Bank Entry and Entrepreneurship

    Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School); Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School); Charles Calomiris (Columbia Business School)

  • Religion, Division of Labor and Conflict: Anti-Semitism in German Regions over 600 Years

    Sascha Becker (University of Warwick); Luigi Pascali (Pompeu Fabra University)

  • When Order Affects Performance: Institutional Sequencing, Cultural Sway, and Behavioral Path Dependence

    Jenna Bednar (University of Michigan); Scott E Page (University of Michigan)

  • Are We Running Out of Trademarks? Evidence of Trademark Depletion at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

    Barton Beebe (New York University School of Law); Jeanne Fromer (New York University School of Law)

  • Do lawyers know uncertainty when they see it?

    Oliver Belitz (University of Mannheim); Andreas Engert (University of Mannheim); Andreas Michl (University of Mannheim)

  • Employee representation legislations and innovation: Evidence from manufacturing sectors

    Filippo Belloc (University of Chieti-Pescara)

  • Managing Export Complexity: the Role of Service Outsourcing

    Giuseppe Berlingieri (ESSEC, OECD, CEP)

  • How the innovation-competition link is shaped by technology distance in high barrier catch-up economy

    Evguenia Bessonova (CEFIR and HSE); Ksenia Gonchar (HSE)

  • Born to Lead? The Effect of Birth Order on Non-Cognitive Abilities

    Sandra Black (University of Texas at Austin); Erik Grönqvist (Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Educ); Björn Öckert (Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Educ)

  • The Effect of Police on Crime: Evidence from 10,000 Discontinuities

    Jordi Blanes i Vidal (London School of Economics); Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex)

  • Mirrors for Princes and Sultans: Advice on the Art of Governance in the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds

    Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University); Justin Grimmer (Stanford University); Alison McQueen (Stanford University)

  • Holding on? Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of economic declines

    Richard Bluhm (Leibniz University Hanover); Kaj Thomsson (Maastricht University)

  • A Comparison and Analysis of Methodologies for Conducting Value for Money Appraisals

    Anthony Boardman (Sauder School of Business); Mark Hellowell (University of Edinburgh)

  • The Impact of Contract Enforcement Costs on Outsourcing and Aggregate Productivity

    Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po)

  • Grade Inflation or Human Capital: Why Have Federal Wages Risen Rapidly?

    Alexander Bolton (Duke University); John de Figueiredo (Duke University)

  • Loss of Human Capital and Development: Evidence from Russian Germans Repatriation

    Ekaterina Borisova (NRU Higher School of Economics); Denis Ivanov (NRU Higher School of Economics)

  • Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine: Sharing Borrower Information in a Competitive Credit Market

    Jaap Bos (Maastricht University); Ralph De Haas (EBRD); Matteo Millone (Free University Amsterdam)

  • Optimal territorial design and decentralization

    Jean-Marc Bourgeon (INRA); Marie Breuillé (INRA)

  • Collective Choice in Dynamic Public Good Provision

    Renee Bowen (Stanford University); George Georgiadis (Northwestern University); Nicolas Lambert (Stanford University)

  • On the Historical Roots of Women’s Empowerment across Italian Provinces: Religion or Family Culture?

    Monica Bozzano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

  • Firm Heterogeneity and Growth through Product Variety and Upgrading Choices

    Serguey Braguinsky (University of Maryland and NBER); Atsushi Ohyama (Hitotsubashi University); Tetsuji Okazaki (Tokyo University); Chad Syverson (University of Chicago and NBER)

  • Incentives and Ratcheting in a Multiproduct Firm: A Field Experiment

    Francisco Brahm (University of Cambridge); Joaquin Poblete (Catholic University of Chile)

  • The System of Equitable Remedies

    Samuel Bray (UCLA)

  • Precolonial Centralization, Foreign Aid and Modern State Capacity in Africa

    Tobias Broich (Maastricht University); Adam Szirmai (Maastricht University); Kaj Thomsson (Maastricht University)

  • The Role of Legitimacy in the Design and Competition between Institutions: the case of Internet Governance

    Eric Brousseau (Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University)

  • Growing Up Without Finance

    James R. Brown (Iowa State University); J. Anthony Cookson (University of Colorado-Boulder); Rawley Heimer (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)

  • The Political Economy of Rule of Law Enforcement: Interdependence between Political and Economic Choices under Imperfect Information

    Randolph Bruno (University College London)

  • A Positive Theory of Retirement Plan Design

    Ryan Bubb (NYU Law); Patrick Warren (Clemson University)

  • A Theory of Sequential Innovation

    Christopher Buccafusco (Cardozo Law School); Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich); Christopher Sprigman (NYU Law School)

  • Boycott, Stigmatisation and Law Enforcement

    Clemens Buchen (EBS Universität, Wiesbaden); Bruno Deffains (Paris 2); Alberto Palermo (EBS Universität, Wiesbaden)

  • Long-Run Consequences of Labor Coercion: Evidence from Russian Serfdom

    Johannes C. Buggle (University of Lausanne); Steven Nafziger (Williams College)

  • The Legacy of Historical Political Institutions on Individual Attitudes: Evidence for Italy 1000-1800

    Paolo Buonanno (University of Bergamo); Matteo Cervellati (University of Bologna); Sara Lazzaroni (University of Bologna); Giovanni Prarolo (University of Bologna)

  • Employee representation and flexible working time: identification through a size-contingent European Directive

    Gabriel Burdin (Leeds University Business School & IZA); Virginie Pérotin (Leeds University Business School)

  • The composite model of russian social structure based on personal incomes

    Kristina Butaeva (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

  • The Procyclicality of Political Trust in Spain

    Gonzalo Caballero (University of Vigo); Marcos Álvarez-Díaz (University of Vigo)

  • Communication in a Complicated World

    Steve Callander (Stanford University); Nicolas Lambert (Stanford University)

  • Trust, Competition and Innovation: Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturing

    Giacomo Calzolari (Bologna); Leonardo Felli (LSE); Johannes Koenen (CESifo Munchen); Konrad Stahl (Mannheim); Giancarlo Spagnolo (Tor Vergata, SITE)

  • Norwegian Rhapsody: The Political Economy Benefits of Regional Integration

    Nauro F. Campos (Brunel University London, ETH-Zurich and IZA-Bonn); Fabrizio Coricelli (Paris School of Economics and CEPR-London); Luigi Moretti (University of Bologna)

  • Institutional change and the roots of the Athenian rule of law

    Federica Carugati (Indiana University)

  • The Death of Rules and Standards

    Anthony Casey (Univ. of Chicago Law School); Anthony Niblett (Univ. of Toronto Faculty of Law)

  • The Stolypin Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Late Imperial Russia

    Paul Castaneda Dower (Florida International University); Andrei Markevich (New Economic School)

  • The organizational atmosphere hypothesis reconsidered in a productive efficiency perspective: theoretical proposition and empirical analysis

    VIRGILE CHASSAGNON (Grenoble Alpes University – CREG Research Centre); NACIBA HANED (ESDES Catholic university of Lyon)

  • Do Policies Affect Preferences? Evidence from Random Variation in Abortion Jurisprudence

    Daniel Chen (Toulouse); Vardges Levonyan (ETH Zurich); Susan Yeh (George Mason University)

  • Growth Under the Shadow of Expropriation: The Economic Impacts of Eminent Domain

    Daniel L. Chen (The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse/ TSE ); Susan Yeh (George Mason University School of Law)

  • Social Preferences or Sacred Values? Theory and Evidence of Deontological Motivations

    Daniel L. Chen (The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse/TSE); Martin Schonger (ETH Zurich)

  • Anatomy of a bank run in opaque banking sector: Who sees what why

    Lucy Chernykh (Clemson University ); Sergey Mityakov (Clemson University )

  • A Crime 2.0 - Cybercrime, e-Talent, and Institutions

    Seo-Young Cho (University of Marburg)

  • Taking a Financial Position in Your Opponent in Litigation

    Albert H. Choi (University of Virginia School of Law); Kathryn E. Spier (Harvard Law School)

  • Religions and inventions: Long-run Evidence for Spain

    Francesco Cinnirella (Ifo Institute); Alireza Naghavi (University of Bologna); Giovanni Prarolo (University of Bologna)

  • "Troll" Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent Litigation

    Lauren H. Cohen (Harvard Business School); John M. Golden (University of Texas School of Law); Umit Gurun (University of Texas at Dallas School of Management); Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Society of Fellows)

  • Dancing with strangers? Initial trust and the formation of initial collaborations between new ventures and corporate venture capitals.

    Massimo Colombo (Politecnico di Milano); Kourosh Shafi (Politecnico di Milano)

  • Relational Contracts and Social Comparison Costs in Organizations

    Oscar F Contreras (CUNEF); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

  • Transactions Costs in the Underground Gun Market

    Philip Cook (Duke University); Jens Ludwig (University of Chicago)

  • The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development

    Carl-Johan Dalgaard (University of Copenhagen and CEPR); Anne Sofie Knudsen (University of Copenhagen); Pablo Selaya (University of Copenhagen)

  • The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition: evidence from internal migration in 19th century France

    Guillaume Daudin (University Paris-Dauphine); Raphael Franck (Bar-Ilan University); Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics)

  • Relational Contracts and Supplier Turnover in the Global Economy

    Fabrice Defever (University of Nottingham); Christian Fischer (University of Düsseldorf); Jens Südekum (University of Düsseldorf)

  • Development through international economic integration: Institutional Change to accommodate Foreign Direct Investment in Brazil and China

    Henrique E. Delgado (Universidade Santa Ursula)

  • Big data in the lab – How do consumers fare when predictive algorithms work against them?

    Sebastian Dengler (Tilburg University)

  • Litigants' strategies in elected courts: Evidence from French labor court

    Claudine Desrieux (University Paris 2); Romain Espinosa (University Paris 2)

  • Causation Actually

    J. Shahar Dillbary (Alabama University)

  • Social Transfers and Political Participation: Evidence from Mali and Ghana

    Marina Dodlova (Aix-Marseille, Passau University, GIGA Hamburg)

  • Strategic Taxation in Autocracies

    Marina Dodlova (University of Passau); Viola Lucas (University of Konstanz & GIGA)

  • Non-Market Strategy: An Integrative Review and Future Directions

    Sinziana Dorobantu (New York University); Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota); Bennet Zelner (University of Maryland)

  • Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms

    Paul Dower (Florida International University); Evgeny Finkel (George Washington University); Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin–Madison); Steven Nafziger (Williams College)

  • Whose Law Is It? Network Analysis of the Evolution of U.S. Environmental Law, 1973-2013

    Marion Dumas (Santa Fe Institute)

  • One Team, One Nation: Football, Ethnic Identity, and Conflict in Africa

    Ruben Durante (Sciences Po); Emilio Depetris Chauvín (Universidad Católica de Chile)

  • Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation

    Ruben Durante (Sciences Po); Filipe Campante (Harvard Kennedy School); Francesco Sobbrio (LUISS)

  • When Civil Society Uses an Iron Fist: The Role of Private Associations in Social Control

    Robert C. Ellickson (Yale Law School)

  • Current institutional determinants of financial system depth and breadth in Africa: similar or different?

    Chukwunonye O. Emenalo (Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University); Francesca Gagliardi (Hertfordshire Business School, U of Hertfordshire); Geoffrey M. Hodgson (Hertfordshire Business School, U of Hertfordshire)

  • The Joy of Flying: Efficient Airport PPP contracts

    Eduardo Engel (Universidad de Chile); Ronald Fischer (Universidad de Chile); Alexander Galetovic (Universidad de los Andes)

  • Size Matters - "Over"investments in a Relational Contracting Setting

    Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Matthias Fahn (LMU Munich)

  • Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia

    Ruben Enikolopov (Barcelona IPEG, UPF, BGSE, NES); Alexey Makarin (Northwestern University); Maria Petrova (Barcelona IPEG, UPF, BGSE, NES)

  • The Determinants of Cross-Border Corruption

    Laarni Escresa (School of Economics, University of the Philippines); Lucio Picci (Department of Economics, University of Bologna)

  • Firm Boundaries and Knowledge: the Lobbyists' case.

    Miguel Espinosa (London School of Economics)

  • The Case for Tipping and Unrestricted Tip-Pooling: Promoting Intrafirm Cooperation

    Samuel Estreicher (New York University School of Law); Jonathan Nash (Emory University School of Law)

  • Privatisation prices: The role of prior restructuring and emerging private ownership structure.

    José Eusébio Santos (University of Madeira)

  • Being Bourgeois. The Emergence of Private Property in the Lab

    Marco Fabbri (University of Rotterdam); Matteo Rizzolli (LUMSA Universty)

  • THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN RISK AND ROYALTIES IN FRANCHISE CONTRACTING

    Muriel Fadairo (GATE L-SE, UMR CNRS 5824); Cintya Lanchimba (National Polytechnic School, Quito, Ecuador); Josef Windsperger (University of Vienna, Austria)

  • Are Preferences for Reciprocity Irrelevant in Situations of Repeated Interaction?

    Matthias Fahn (University of Munich); Anne Schade (University of Munich); Katharina Schuessler (University of Munich)

  • Capital Structure Choice and the Cost of Enforcing Contracts - Theory and Evidence

    Matthias Fahn (University of Munich); Valeria Merlo (University of Tuebingen); Wamser Georg (University of Tuebingen)

  • Engineering the Rule of Law in Ancient Athens

    Robert K. Fleck (Clemson University); F. Andrew Hanssen (Clemson University)

  • CEO's Morality and Incentives

    Pierre Fleckinger (MINES ParisTech & Paris School of Economics); Thierry Lafay (University of Paris 1); Constance Monnier (University of Paris 1)

  • Monitoring, Transparency and Accountability

    Pierre Fleckinger (Mines Paristech, CERNA); Nicolas Roux (Max Planck Institute)

  • The Limits to Partial Banking Unions: A Political Economy Approach

    Dana Foarta (Stanford GSB)

  • Moving from conflict to post-conflict: Changes in the organization of production and distribution in rural Colombia

    Clemente Forero-Pineda (Universidad de los Andes School of Management); Luz Elena Orozco (Universidad de los Andes School of Management); Eduardo Wills (Universidad de los Andes School of Management); Manuel Moscoso (Departamento Nacional de Planeación Colombia)

  • Ancient and Modern Conceptions of the Rule of Law

    Sara Forsdyke (University of Michigan)

  • Sticking Points: Common-Agency Problems and Contracting in the U.S. Healthcare System

    Brigham Frandsen (Brigham Young University); Michael Powell (Northwestern University); James B. Rebitzer (Boston University)

  • Corporate Political Strategy in Contested Regulatory Environments

    Adam Fremeth (University of Western Ontario); Guy Holburn (University of Western Ontario); Rick Vanden Bergh (University of Vermont)

  • Disguised Contributions to Political Campaigns: the Long Shadow of Corporate-linked Spending

    Adam Fremeth (University of Western Ontario); Brian Richter (University of Texas at Austin); Brandon Schaufele (University of Western Ontario)

  • Empowering bosses to lead: an experiment in a large retail chain

    Guido Friebel (Goethe U, Frankfurt); Matthias Heinz (Cologne); Nick Zubanov (Goethe U, Frankfurt)

  • Hitting Them with Carrots: Voter Intimidation and Vote Buying In Russia

    Timothy Frye (Columbia University); Ora John Reuter (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee); David Szakonyi (Columbia University)

  • On the Surprising Use of Unenforceable Clauses in Consumer Contracts: Evidence from the Residential Rental Market

    Meirav Furth-Matzkin (Harvard University)

  • Self-regulation of degree of openness in cumulative innovation

    Salavat Gabdrakhmanov (CEFIR, Moscow)

  • How legal spillovers interact with learning: theoretical and experimental evidence

    Roberto Galbiati (Sc Po); Emeric Henry (Sc Po); Nicolas Jacquemet (PSE)

  • Jobs, News and Re-offending after Incarceration

    Roberto Galbiati (OSC-CNRS and Sciences Po); Aurélie Ouss (University of Chicago Crime Lab); Arnaud Philippe (CREST and University of Paris 1)

  • Modeling production in the Creative Commons

    Massimiliano Gambardella (M5S, Legislative Office, Chamber of deputies (Italy)); Matthijs den Besten (Montpellier Business School)

  • Impact of Family Planning Policy on Gender Inequality: Evidence from China

    Yining Geng (University Pompeu Fabra)

  • Adaptation and Relational Contracting in the Airline Industry

    Ricard Gil (Johns Hopkins University); Myongjin Kim (University of Oklahoma); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

  • Accountability in Autocracies with Multidimensional Policies

    Mario Gilli (University of Milan-Bicocca); Yuan Li (University of Duisburg-Essen)

  • Defensive Tactics and Optimal Search: A Simulation Approach

    Ronald J. Gilson (Columbia University); Alan Schwartz (Yale University)

  • Wage Bargaining when Workers Have Fairness Concerns

    Martina N. Gogova (EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht); Jenny Kragl (EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht)

  • IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK ON ECONOMIC GROWTH THROUGH VENTURE CAPITAL IN EMERGING MARKETS

    Guldem Gokcek (New York University)

  • What Do the Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights Tell about Property Rights across Europe?

    David Gomtsyan (University of Turin); Suren Gomtsyan (Tilburg University)

  • One Tick and You're Out: The Effects of the Master Lever on Senator Positions

    Olga Gorelkina (MPI); Ioanna Grypari (MPI)

  • Gender equality in Muslim-majority countries

    Moamen Gouda (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies); Niklas Potrafke (Ifo Institute - Munich University)

  • The Long-Term Effect of Slavery on Violent Crime: Evidence from US Counties

    Moamen Gouda (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies); Anouk S. Rigterink (London School of Economics and Political Science)

  • Institutions and Visa Regimes

    Camila Gracheva (Higher School of Economics ); Leonid Polishchuk (Higher School of Economics ); Koen Schoors (Ghent University ); Alexander Yarkin (Higher School of Economics)

  • Cultural Persistence? Evidence from an Administrative Reform on Borders of Southern Italy

    Adele Grompone (Banca d'Italia); Luca Sessa (Banca d'Italia)

  • What makes governments popular?

    Sergei Guriev (Scienes Po); Daniel Treisman (UCLA)

  • Is Rule of Law an Equilibrium Without Private Ordering?

    Gillian K. Hadfield (University of Southern California); Barry R. Weingast (Stanford University)

  • Pervasive Spurious Normativity, or: The Case for Lots of Silly Rules

    Gillian K. Hadfield (University of Southern California); Dylan Hadfield-Menell (University of California, Berkeley)

  • GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY IN THE PRESENCE OF THRESHOLD EFFECTS

    Houda Haffoudhi (FSEGN-University of Carthage); Rihab Bellakhal (Tunis Graduate School of Business)

  • Coordination of Humanitarian Aid by Mediated Communication

    Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol); In-Uck Park (University of Bristol)

  • Transparency and Deliberation within the FOMC: a Computational Linguistics Approach

    Stephen Hansen (UPF); Michael McMahon (Warwick); Andrea Prat (Columbia)

  • Signaling Cooperation

    Matthias Heinz (University of Cologne); Heiner Schumacher (KU Leuven)

  • Paying for Creativity: The Effect of Piece-Rate vs. Time-Rate Compensation on Quality of Work

    Walid Hejazi (University of Toronto); Brian S. Silverman (University of Toronto); Brent Perekoppi (University of Toronto)

  • Voting and contributing when the group is watching

    Emeric Henry (Sciences Po); Charles Louis-Sidois (Sciences Po)

  • Inefficient Growth

    Tobias Hlobil (University of Hamburg); Mitja Kovac (Universty of Ljubljana); Rok Spruk (Utrecht University)

  • The Determinants of Managerial Productivity around the World

    Mitchell Hoffman (University of Toronto); Matthew Bidwell (University of Pennsylvania); John McCarthy (Cornell University); Michael Housman (HiQ Labs)

  • Do CEOs Differ From Others in Strategic Decision-Making?

    Hakan Holm (Lund University); Victor Nee (Cornell University); Sonja Opper (Lund University)

  • Valuing Peace: The Effects of Financial Market Exposure on Votes and Political Attitudes

    Saumitra Jha (Stanford Graduate School of Business); Moses Shayo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

  • A Sociopolitical View of the “Make and/or Buy” Decisions in Corporate Political Lobbying

    Nan Jia (University of Southern California)

  • The Problem of Reputation

    Emily Kadens (Northwestern University)

  • Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States

    Mounir Karadja (IIES, Stockholm University); Erik Prawitz (IIES, Stockholm University)

  • The Comparative Governance of Collective Action

    Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota); Jiao Luo (University of Minnesota)

  • Remedies for Breach of Fiduciary Duties: An Economic Analysis of Trusts

    Daniel B. Kelly (University of Notre Dame)

  • Religion, Moral Attitudes & Economic Behavior

    Isadora Kirchmaier (University of Heidelberg); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University); Stefan T. Trautmann (University of Heidelberg)

  • Utility governance and why consolidations may not deliver: lessons from Central and Eastern Europe

    Michael Klien (Austrian Institute of Economic Research)

  • Does E-government improve government capacity? Evidence from tax administration and public procurement

    Anna Kochanova (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Go); Zahid Hasnain (World Bank); Bradley Larson (World Bank)

  • Institutional Roots of State Failure

    Ekaterina Kruglova (Lomonosov Moscow State University); Lilia Valitova (Lomonosov Moscow State University); Daniel Shestakov (Bank of Russia)

  • How Effective Are Relational Incentive Contracts? Evidence from Foreign Entrepreneurs in Russia

    Elena Kulchina (Duke University); Joanne Oxley (University of Toronto)

  • Public law enforcers and political competition

    Eric Langlais (EconomiX CNRS University Paris Ouest Nanterre); Marie Obidzinski (Université Paris II, CRED)

  • Judgment Contingent Settlements

    Shay Lavie (Tel Aviv University); Avraham Tabbach (Tel Aviv University)

  • Quotas

    Shay Lavie (Tel Aviv)

  • Economic Analysis of Property Rights: First Possession of Water in the American West

    Bryan Leonard (Arizona State University); Gary Libecap (UCSB and NBER)

  • Organization of Decision-Making at the Firm: Just Cost-Benefit Optimization or Something More?

    Irina Levina (Higher School of Economics)

  • Social network, gift exchanging and inequality in China

    Fanghua Li (University of California, Los Angeles); Yuan Tian (University of California, Los Angeles)

  • Cooperation Under the Risk of Capture

    Malte Lierl (Yale University)

  • Elections and Embezzlement

    Malte Lierl (Yale University)

  • The Strategic Use of Early Bird Discounts for Dealers

    Desmond Lo (Santa Clara University); Stephen Salant (University of Maryland & University of Michigan)

  • Influence of governance structure on the effectiveness of quality standards: The case of Geographical Indications

    Susana López-Bayón (University of Oviedo); Manuel González-Díaz (University of Oviedo); Vanesa Solís-Rodríguez (University of Oviedo); Marta Fernández-Barcala (University of Oviedo)

  • The Political Determinants of Regulation: Data over One Century from the Swiss Cantons

    Simon Luechinger (University of Lucerne); Mark Schelker (University of Fribourg)

  • Vertical Integration and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Costa Rica’s Coffee Chain

    Rocco Macchiavello (University of Warwick); Pepita Miquel-Florensa (TSE)

  • Formal Versus Informal Channels: How Firm Size Affects Corporate Political Activities

    Jeffrey T. Macher (Georgetown University (McDonough)); John W. Mayo (Georgetown University (McDonough)); Stephen Weymouth (Georgetown University (McDonough))

  • Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation: The Effects of Timing, Malfeasance and Guile

    W Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University); Teck Yong Tan (Columbia University)

  • More Money, Less Violence? The Effects of a Natural Resource Boom on Local Electoral Violence in Peru

    Stanislao Maldonado (Universidad del Rosario); Juan Vargas (Universidad del Rosario); Ben Crost (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Delegation with a Reciprocal Agent

    Ester Manna (Universitat de Barcelona); Alessandro De Chiara (Central European University Budapest)

  • Data Regulation and Its Effect on Business Models & Corporate Organization in the New Economy

    Geoffrey A. Manne (International Center for Law & Economics)

  • The Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire

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    Michael Poyker (University of California at Los Angeles)

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    James Tremewan (University of Vienna); Matteo Rizzolli (LUMSA University)

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